June 2009 - Jim Fallows' Aviation blogs
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I am no longer based in China, but am not yet actually based anyplace else. So this might be the last dispatch for the next week, and it's on the fly from yet another airport wi-fi site. Sketchy for-the-record remarks: 1) After 60+ hours in America...
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Good . Pilot of a Cirrus SR-22 gets into trouble while flying over North Carolina but has an option. As the Mount Airy News reports , the pilot "...was at 6,000 feet when he declared an emergency, pulled the parachute his plane was equipped with...
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I'm aware of a ton of loose threads to be gathered up (about Air France updates, Obama's speaking style, urban design in China, design in software, boiled frogs, you name it). Soon. But three years in China have now come down to three days; the...
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Regarding one of the puzzles of the Air France 447 crash -- how a professional air crew ended up in the middle of a powerful thunderstorm -- an airline pilot writes: As a point of reference I'm an A-320 Captain for NWA (soon to be Delta but happy...
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First, about the battered but durable small-airplane, point-to-point travel movement, chronicled frequently over the past ten years ( here , for starters), a retrospective from Bruce Holmes, long time "extrepreneurial bureaucrat" from NASA....
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I have been preoccupied, or out of range, in the week since this disaster occurred and so hadn't read up on it. But here, for anyone who doesn't know about it, is a source that establishes beyond question one crucial point about the accident,...